"It is an unfortunate human failing that..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so”

“Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”

“For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.”

“Man is bound to lie about himself”

“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.”

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

“In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.”

“The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.”